Glad Pearsall is in stable condition. Hope he is able to make a full recovery.
SF and Union Square has been declining for 2+ decades. I haven’t been there since around 2002 when I took my daughter and two of her friends into the City to shop for prom dresses. The sidewalks were full of litter (no homeless on the sidewalks at the time), but a homeless guy came and banged on my car while we were stopped at a traffic light. Such a shame. In the ‘80s and into the ‘90s, I’d take my kids in on the ferry and we felt perfectly safe walking around.
I used to regularly take the kids to the movies downtown, to Westfield.
That was @1994-2012
It was only very recently, as of 2020, that its gotten this bad. I was attacked on Market Street by a madman in 2021.